The bottom line of the government’s monthly unemployment report — the overall unemployment rate — gets all the headlines, but there are more details beyond the fact the unemployment rate stayed the same last month.

Here are a few:

— The lowest unemployment rate in the U.S. is for Asians — 6.4%. Five percent is considered full employment. The rate for Asians has dropped 1% in a year. But among minority groups, Asians stay unemployed longest.

— The unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds is 26%.

— 2.5 million unemployed people, not included in the unemployment rate, haven’t looked for work in at least the last four weeks.

— The fastest-growing professional sector right now are jobs held by people who help people find jobs.

— The unemployment rate for people who don’t have a high school diploma or equivalent is 15.4%

— The unemployment rate for those with a college degree (and over 25) is 4.4%. That rate has never been higher than 5% since 2000 except for last December and last February.

— The unemployment rate for Iraq-war era veterans lower than for the labor force as a whole. But the unemployment rate for veterans from the first Gulf war era is higher than for the labor force as a whole.

— More than half of the people who are presently unemployed, haven’t had a job in more than 15 weeks.

— 77% of the people employed in education and health services are women, the highest industry sector for employment of women. The lowest is construction (13%).

— The average workweek of those in the leisure/hospitality sector is only 24 hours. Those in the mining industry have an average 44-hour workweek. The average number of overtime hours per week in manufacturing is 3 hours.

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Bob Collins has been with Minnesota Public Radio since 1992, emigrating to Minnesota from Massachusetts where he was vice president of programming for Berkshire Broadcasting Company. Previously, he was an editor at the RKO Radio network in New York, and WHDH Radio in Boston. He is the founder of the MPR News’ website.